Intro to Human Resources

Managing people is vitally important and staff wages are one of the largest expenditures in most businesses. As a result of this, recruitment, training and the creation of good working relationships needs to be carefully managed. In small businesses the managers have firect responsibility or the people working for them, whilst in larger companies it is the job of the Human Resourcesor Personnel Department to manage people.

Internal Organisation

Businesses are built up in layers with those with most power at the top and those with the least at the bottom, this is known as a hierachy. The bottom layer has the most people with the least responsibilities and as you go higher, responsibility increases and the number of people decreases. Businesses with lots of layers are called tall hierachies, those…